{"id":13872,"date":"2016-01-29T08:29:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T13:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=13872"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:53:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:53:32","slug":"13872","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2016\/13872\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Launch Today: Abortion Under Apartheid by Dr. Susanne Klausen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Book Launch Today: Abortion Under Apartheid by Dr. Susanne Klausen\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>In&nbsp;her new book&nbsp;<em>Abortion Under Apartheid: Nationalism, Sexuality and Women\u2019s Reproductive Rights in South Africa<\/em>, Dr. Susanne&nbsp;Klausen discusses how ideas about sexuality were fundamental to apartheid culture, and how the authoritarian National Party government attempted to regulate white women\u2019s reproductive sexuality in the interest of maintaining white supremacy. We invite you to join us today for a celebration of this achievement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event began at 12:30pm in the History Lounge (433 Paterson Hall) and was hosted by two of Klausen&#8217;s doctoral students &#8211; Christine Chisholm and Melissa Armstrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"518\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Klausen-book-launch-poster-400x518.jpg\" alt=\"Poster for Abortion Under Apartheid book launch\" class=\"wp-image-13798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Klausen-book-launch-poster-400x518.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Klausen-book-launch-poster-160x207.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Klausen-book-launch-poster-240x311.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Klausen-book-launch-poster-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Klausen-book-launch-poster-360x466.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Klausen-book-launch-poster.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In&nbsp;her new book&nbsp;Abortion Under Apartheid: Nationalism, Sexuality and Women\u2019s Reproductive Rights in South Africa, Dr. Susanne&nbsp;Klausen discusses how ideas about sexuality were fundamental to apartheid culture, and how the authoritarian National Party government attempted to regulate white women\u2019s reproductive sexuality in the interest of maintaining white supremacy. 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